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No sooner have I got into my room penitus ab orbe divisus, as I rashly think than there is a tap at the door. Trevanion's, a pretence to have me near her, and see with her own eyes that I am not fretting; the moment she hears I have shut myself up in my room, she is sure that it is for sorrow.
At that very time on trial, not merely already at that time. Cf. Hand's Tursel. 3, 113. Nostra, sc. of the Senate, of which T. was a member, though abroad at the time. Helvidius was arrested in the senate house, cf. Plin. Ep. 9, 13. This was Helvidius the son, who was put to death by Dom. Visus. Al. divisus. Visus==species, adspectus, Wr. Perfudit. Zeugma. Of Rusticus and Senecio, see 2, note.
The passage is as follows: 'In Anglia natus est puer geminus a clune ad superiores partes ita divisus, ut duo haberet capita, duo corpora integra ad renes cum suis brachiis, qui baptizatus triduo supervixit. It is just possible that in some way or other this case has been confounded with the story of Biddenden; at any rate, the occurrence of such a statement in Lycosthenes' work is of more than passing interest.
No sooner have I got into my room penitus ab orbe divisus, as I rashly think than there is a tap at the door. Trevanion's, a pretence to have me near her, and see with her own eyes that I am not fretting; the moment she hears I have shut myself up in my room, she is sure that it is for sorrow.
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